born in Billings, Yellowstone County, Mont., February 22, 1920; attended the public schools and Great Falls High School; graduated from Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calif., in 1942 and from Stanford University Law School in 1948; worked as a journeyman carpenter while attending high school and college; enlisted in the Army Air Corps in 1942, became a bomber pilot and on a mission over Austria was shot down, wounded, and held for fourteen months in a German prison camp; was discharged in 1945 as a first lieutenant and awarded the Air Medal and Purple Heart with clusters; was admitted to the bar in 1948 and commenced the practice of law the same year in Salinas, Calif.; member of the County Board of Surpervisors from the Salinas-Alisal district, 1954-1962, serving as chairman of the board in 1962; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-eighth and to the six succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1963-January 3, 1977); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1976 to the Ninety-fifth Congress; president and consultant for legislative affairs, Talcott, McCabe and Associates, 1977-1986; associate deputy administrator for congressional affairs, Veterans Administration, 1986 to present; is a resident of Bethesda, Md., and Salinas, Calif.